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VMware Validated Design for Management and Workload Consolidation 4.3 Design Decision Checklist This document provides all 268 decisions in the VMware Validated Design for Management and Workload Consolidation 4.3 Architecture and Design into a simple spreadsheet for quick reference. It includes columns for determining your level of adherence to the architecture and any justification for deviations.       

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.3 Design Decision Checklist Updated 17 July 2018 This document provides you all 375+ design decisions in the VMware Validated Design for Software Defined Data Center 4.3 Architecture and Design into simple spreadsheet for quick reference. It includes columns for determining your level of adherence to the architecture and any justification for deviations.

As many of you may know, we opened this Early Access sub-community to provide you an opportunity to download and discuss pre-released design materials for the VMware Validated Designs. We want you discover the latest content for blueprints that are in development and learn about the direction of the next generation architectures. Today I get to announce the fruits of the past few months of my labor, NSX-T in a Workload Domain. This early access design covers the architecture and design elements for adding NSX-T to a  VMware Validated Design workload domain. Got feedback? We want to hear from you. So dive into this latest early access content and share your feedback directly with our architects and product managers! This document was generated from the following discussion: Early Access: VMware Validated Design for NSX-T in a Workload Domain

As many of you may know, we opened this Early Access sub-community to provide you an opportunity to download and discuss pre-released design materials for the VMware Validated Designs. We want you discover the latest content for blueprints that are in development and learn about the direction of the next generation architectures. Today I get to announce the fruits of the past few months of my labor, NSX-T in a Workload Domain. This early access design covers the architecture and design elements for adding NSX-T to a  VMware Validated Design workload domain. Got feedback? We want to hear from you. So dive into this latest early access content and share your feedback directly with our architects and product managers!

Updated: 09 May 2018 This document provides all 246 decisions in the VMware Validated Design for Management and Workload Consolidation 4.2 Architecture and Design into a simple spreadsheet for quick reference. It includes columns for determining your level of adherence to the architecture and any justification for deviations.

It is my pleasure to share the updated architecture reference poster for the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.2. This poster depicts many portions of the fundamental architecture for both quick reference and discussion. The poster has six major sections. Logical Components Architecture – This section illustrates the logical architecture and the how the solutions are deployed and integrated across a full-stack, dual-region Software-Defined Data Center. From vCenter Servers and load-balanced Platform Services Controllers to cross-region and cross-vCenter NSX, through cloud operations and automation with the vRealize Suite, this section touches it all. Core and Domain Architecture – This section illustrates the concent of Workload Domains used in the design and how they are constructed and deployed to provide a common set of scalable building blocks for your Software-Defined Data Center. Distributed Logical Networking and Application Virtual Networks – This section illustrates the design’s use of distributed logical routing across a dual-region Software-Defined Data Center by incorporating VMware NSX into the management stack. It also depicts the deployment of the full-stack of SDDC solutions with Application Virtual Networks and network services provided by NSX. Storage – This section illustrates the use of vSAN and NFS in the design. VMware Validated Designs are designed and tested with VMware vSAN in the management & shared edge and compute domains for primary storage and NFS for secondary storage (templates, archives, and backups.) Workload Domains – This section illustrates, at a high-level, how the network works inside the workload domains. Region Protection and Disaster Recovery – This section illustrates how the design protects vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Business for Cloud using Site Recovery Manager along with NSX. If you’d like to print the poster and hang it on your office wall, the PDF size is 51in x 31in. Let us know if you have any questions or have feedback by posting comments in here in the community. For more information on VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2: VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2 Release Notes What’s New in the VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2 Blog Read the documentation at vmware.com/go/vvd-docs This document was generated from the following discussion: VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2 Architecture Reference Poster

It is my pleasure to share the updated architecture reference poster for the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 4.2. This poster depicts many portions of the fundamental architecture for both quick reference and discussion. The poster has six major sections. Logical Components Architecture – This section illustrates the logical architecture and the how the solutions are deployed and integrated across a full-stack, dual-region Software-Defined Data Center. From vCenter Servers and load-balanced Platform Services Controllers to cross-region and cross-vCenter NSX, through cloud operations and automation with the vRealize Suite, this section touches it all. Core and Domain Architecture – This section illustrates the concent of Workload Domains used in the design and how they are constructed and deployed to provide a common set of scalable building blocks for your Software-Defined Data Center. Distributed Logical Networking and Application Virtual Networks – This section illustrates the design’s use of distributed logical routing across a dual-region Software-Defined Data Center by incorporating VMware NSX into the management stack. It also depicts the deployment of the full-stack of SDDC solutions with Application Virtual Networks and network services provided by NSX. Storage – This section illustrates the use of vSAN and NFS in the design. VMware Validated Designs are designed and tested with VMware vSAN in the management & shared edge and compute domains for primary storage and NFS for secondary storage (templates, archives, and backups.) Workload Domains – This section illustrates, at a high-level, how the network works inside the workload domains. Region Protection and Disaster Recovery – This section illustrates how the design protects vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Business for Cloud using Site Recovery Manager along with NSX. If you’d like to print the poster and hang it on your office wall, the PDF size is 51in x 31in. Let us know if you have any questions or have feedback by posting comments in here in the community. For more information on VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2: VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2 Release Notes What’s New in the VMware Validated Design for SDDC 4.2 Blog Read the documentation at vmware.com/go/vvd-docs